Thinking about becoming a right-wing talk show host whose only issue is anger that Tiny Desk Concerts happen at a fairly large desk
"The elites say it's the concert that's tiny, not the desk. Oh yeah? Really? When's the last time you heard a short concert described as 'tiny'? Why didn't the call it 'Short Desk Concerts'? Our elites have LIED TO US!!"
"This is the kind of moral relativism they teach at universities today! They're teaching that any desk can be tiny if it wants. NO! Facts are facts! A is A! The desk is big!!"
"Our forefathers would have called this desk but! If Thomas Jefferson had written the Constitution at this desk, he would have praised its Largeness and substantial Size! Only the weak effeminate men of the de-Christianized modern world would call a big desk 'tiny'!!"
OK I think I might be getting too much into the bit here
I do think we should make a concerted effort to trick right-wing ranters into thinking Thomas Jefferson wrote the Constitution, tho
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I think we Jews have sort of an unusual and valuable perspective on ancestry and empire. Our ancestors never had an empire, and almost never even had a country, and I think this is probably why few Jews tend to think that we're naturally superior to anyone else.
People have this weird irrational thing where they think that because their ancestors owned a big block of land and had an army that could kick people's asses, their racial, ethnic, or religious group is somehow the Master Group. But we Jews were never masters of anything.
Like, you do meet some Jewish guys who brag about Jewish people winning Nobel prizes or something like that. But in general I think the idea of "we are the superior people" is just really not common at all in Jewish culture.
Evidence shows that H-1b workers RAISE skilled Americans' wages, and increase hiring as well. They also increase innovation. And once you control for skill, they're not paid less than their American counterparts.
Three key reforms to make the program better include:
1. Giving preference to higher-paid H-1b workers
2. Extending the "grace period" for H-1b workers to search for new jobs from 60 days to 180
3. Making it easier to transfer an in-process green card application
Those three reforms would basically fix the "lockup" problem that allows employers to treat their H-1b workers worse, while also making sure that the program maximizes the amount of foreign talent the U.S. gets.
Also of course we should raise the yearly cap back to 200,000.
Has it been widely reported? The total number of H-1bs working at Twitter *before* the layoffs appears to have been about 300 -- around 8% of the total *remaining* Twitter workforce.
In fact, I can't find *any* news source that claims that a majority of Twitter's remaining workforce is on H-1b visas. Where is this being "widely reported"?